I am a historian of the Second World War and the aim of this site is to enable others to access some of the research I have carried out over the past few years, and to encourage people to exchange ideas and views about a wide range of subjects relating to the conflict. On this site you will find an oral history archive with transcriptions of many of the interviews I have conducted with veterans of the war from many different countries, and there are also blogs, comment pieces, book reviews, suggested reading, and also contributions from other leading historians in this field.
I hope you find it interesting.

James Holland

Talking point - Monday 12th February 2007

Book Review: A Military History of Britain From 1775 to the Present

A Military History of Britain From 1775 to the Present
By Jeremy Black, published by Prager Security International

By and large, historians of the Second World War have not been keen to vary their approach to the subject.  By this I mean that most British and especially American historians tend to write about the Allied perspective only; they usually concentrate on what was happening on the ground rather than seeing a campaign as a three-way contribution by the army, navy and air forces; and any ‘revisionism’ tends to be limited to the already established narrow view of the war.  Read more…

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